Acknowledgments

The hands and minds of numerous individuals, groups and institutions contributed to the Remarkable Women of Taos. In addition to those listed below, we salute everyone who worked behind the scenes, whose ideas and information provided guidance. It truly takes a community to create such an all-encompassing project. Thank you all!

“The Committee:” Cathy Ann Connelly, Elizabeth Cunningham, Joan Griffin, Jeanne Kitzman, Susan Longhenry, Stephen Parks, Janet Webb, Karen Young.

Core Financial Support: Town of Taos, Taos County Lodgers Association, State of New Mexico Department of Tourism – Grant Programs.

Marketing and Public Relations: Griffin & Associates (Albuquerque) as consultant for Taos Tourism, JHL Media (Santa Fe), Webb Design Inc., Harwood Museum of Art, Hawk Publications (Angel Fire), New Mexico Magazine, Santa Fean magazine, The Taos News, TREND Magazine, State of New Mexico Department of Tourism.

Partnering Institutions: Art in Town Hall, DMC Broadcasting, KTAO Radio (Fusion Marketing), The Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Mandelman Ribak Foundation, Parks Gallery, Millicent Rogers Museum, New Mexico Chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (inspired by the Remarkable Women of Taos celebration, Chapter President Susan Berk instituted a yearlong statewide program honoring women artists throughout New Mexico in 2012), SOMOS (Society of the Muse of the Southwest), Swashbuckler Media, ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Pecha Kucha, Taos Art Museum, Taos Arts & Culture District, Taos Association of Bed and Breakfast Inns, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos County Historical Society, Taos Fall Arts, Taos Gallery Association, Taos Museum Association, Taos Historic Museums (E.L. Blumenschein Home, Hacienda de los Martinez ), The Taos Project, Taos Pueblo Tourism, Taos Pueblo Red Willow Center, Taos Ski Valley Chamber of Commerce, Two Graces Plaza Gallery.

Events, Exhibitions, Nominations, Planning: Mark Adair, Christine Autumn, Lisa Bayne, Kate Braid, Jina Brenneman, Barbara Brenner, Ellen Brodsky, Judith Bronner, Cynthia Burt, Michael Carter, Gary Cook, Amy Cordova, Elizabeth Cunningham, Dancer Dearing, Debra de la Torre, Nancy Delpero, Leslie Harrell Dillen, Shawn Duran, Mark J. Gordon, Veronica Golos, Barbara Harmon, Charlotte Hopper, George Jaramillo, Nancy Jenkins, Kathleen Knoth, Carrie Leven, Teresa Loveless, Ali MacGraw, Brad Malone, Marsha Mason, Anita McDaniel, , Deborah McLean, Alexia Mellor, Katherine Toy Miller, Sandy Nachtrab, John Nichols, Rob Nightingale, Cheryl Nixon, Zoe Otero, Giovanna Paponetti, Melia Paulken, Sarah Pyatt, Carmela Quinto, Olivia Romo, Lois Palken Rudnick, Lorraine Concha Martinez, Ana Pacheco, Elizabeth Crittenden Palacios, Ginger Pizzurro, Corina Santistevan, Rita Santistevan, Erion Simpson, Jan Smith, Sharon Snyder, Richard Spera, Ilona Spruce, Nancy Stapp, Mirabai Starr, Susanna Starr, J. Matthew Thomas, Olga Torres-Reid, Susan Suazo, Kelley Shull Tredwin, Lisa Tringali, Bruce Trinkley, Randie Uranga-Gonzales, Delinda VanneBrightyn, Michael Vigil, Tanya Vigil, Peter Walker, Nancy Zastudil.

Profiles-writers: Mary Alvarado, Philip Bareiss, Lyn Bleiler, Kathleen Burg, Mary Burns, Robert Caffazo, Lorraine Ciancio, Virginia L. Clark, Ernestina Córdova, Kathryn Córdova, Carole Crews, Elizabeth Cunningham, Dancer Dearing, Teresa H. Ebie, Pamela Hall Evans, Carol Farmer, Jennifer Furlow, Gail Goodwin, Phaedra Greenwood, Carole Gregory, Andrea Heckman, Dory Hulburt, Farzana Islam, Alford Johnson, Judith Kendall, Jean Lehman, Carrie Leven, Deborah McLean, Maria Meadowcroft, Rita O’Connell, Tizia O’Connor, Stephen Parks, Lucy Perera, Heather Pipkin, Joan Pond, Carmela Quinto, Rima Ralff, Jean Richards, Corina Santistevan, Felipe Santistevan, Craig Smith, Jan Smith, Sharon Snyder, KC Tebbutt, Judy Trujillo, E. P. Walkiewicz, Juanita Witkop, Pat Wright.

Profiles-photographs: Institutions—David Cook Fine Art, Denver; Harwood Museum of Art; Latham Family Educational Trust; Los Alamos Historical Museum of Archives; Mabel Dodge Luhan House; Mandelman-Ribak Foundation; Millicent Rogers Museum; Jonathan Warm Day and Christopher Gomez, Eva Mirabal Collection; Michelle Roberts, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; Daniel Kosharek, Photo Archives, Palace of the Governors, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe; Taos Art Museum; Taos Historic Museums; Rick Romancito, “Tempo” magazine, and Tina Larkin, The Taos News; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque; Individuals: Megan Bowers Avina, John Block, Kathleen Brennan, Michael Burney, William Byas, Nancy Castelli, Dancer Dearing, Michael DeYoung, Jennifer Esperanza, Martha Flanders, Lenny Foster, Christopher Gomez, Adam Gottstein, Ross Jenkins, Adam Kerr, Lee Knox, Peter Lamont, Carrie Leven, Lee Ann Loupe, Joan Malone, Suzanne Mayer, Anita McDaniel, Paul O’Connor, Marjorie Olson, Carmela Quinto, Noreen Perrin, Rima Ralff, Rick Romancito, Jett Ulaner Sarachek, Lynda Smith, Robbie Steinbach, Mildred Tolbert, Larry Torres, Pattie Traynor, Nita van der Werff, David Vedoe.

Book Production and Support: Janet Webb and Burrell Brenneman, Webb Design Inc; Healy Foundation; Taos Community Foundation; Sally Mayer; Linda and Robert Attiyeh; writers Lyn Bleiler and Bonnie Lee Black; editor Barbara Scott, Final Eyes; publisher Rebecca Lenzini, Nighthawk Press; editorial support: Skip Miller and Pierre Miller.

 Archival Website Support: Beyond Taos, Nighthawk Press, Town of Taos and Women Give Initiative of the Taos Community Foundation.